I see YouTubers amongst other people talking about lava farms every time they see dripstone. They seem very excited when they see

✨The Dripstone Cave✨

-and immediately mention lava farm.

Why? Doesn’t it take literal hours irl to get a few buckets? Isn’t it quicker to fill 10 buckets from a lava lake in the nether than to make 10 buckets from a lava farm?

What makes a lava farm so appealing? Why wouldn’t you take the opportunity to drain an entire nether lava lake?

  • PrawnFreshOPB
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    1 year ago

    Can you explain to me what makes this efficient? Do you have to wait until you have 100 items to start smelting? I don’t use lava for smelting but I’m under the impression it’s a 1 time thing meaning it’s impractical to use a bucket of lava to smelt 10 items.

    What if you need to smelt, idk like a stack of sand. Do you just take the other 40 blocks worth as a loss and refill? Or is it more for XP purposes that you’d use lava in an auto smelter?